First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.
It’s only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead...
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.
It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.
Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.
A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes – one for peace and one for science.
Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.
It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.